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10 Ways to Retain and Motivate Your Best People

Although money can be a great motivator, there are other―some might say better—ways to retain and motivate your best people. Many times we assume…

4 Barriers to Innovation and How to Knock Them Down

Regardless of what you are trying to achieve—creating a product, being an industry leader or finding a new way to accomplish tasks for effectively—innovation…

Enhance Your Social Media Strategy with Vine

What is Vine? Twitter’s new (and free!) video-sharing mobile app, Vine, was created to serve the same purpose as its strictly-140-characters-or-less founder―to capture and…

Non-Profits: Rules for Entering a Joint Venture Arrangement

For decades, non-profit organizations have been looking for ways to increase revenue in order to better achieve their charitable (or exempt) purpose. One way…

The Social CEO: How to Create and Maintain Your Personal Brand

Professionals are using search engines like Google and Bing; social networking sites like LinkedIn and Twitter; and informational sites like Pipl and 123People to learn about your company,…

4 Ways to Target Your Unique Buyer Personas (Part 2)

These descriptions detail the specific individuals to whom you are targeting your products and services—fairly important, right? A buyer persona explores much more than…

GASB Statements 67 and 68

In June 2012, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) issued two new statements impacting how state and local governments report their participation in pension…

Healthcare Reform On-Demand Webinar

What Employers Need to Know about 2014, 2015 and Beyond Even with the recently announced delays in the implementation of employer mandates and penalties…

5 Key Business Credit and Incentive Categories

While highly publicized and touted, tax credits and other incentives have a reputation of being difficult to obtain. Incentives are generally specific and designed…

Design a Successful Benefits Plan in 6 Steps

Similar to our recent blog post on designing a compensation plan, benefits plans should also stay as consistent and as competitive as possible—that is, after…

How to Design a Compensation Plan in 7 Steps

Paying your employees competitively and equitably is critical in order to retain top talent. While we’d like to believe that our employees don’t know…

Improve Targeting by Creating Buyer Personas (Part 1)

In today’s hectic business environment, time has become a precious commodity. Attention spans have decreased; patience has worn thin and when we want answers,…

5 Steps Toward a Successful Recruitment Strategy

Following a cookie-cutter approach is near impossible for recruitment managers of varying organizations. Finding your own, efficient process—from the interview through the offer letter—is…

Non-Profits: How to Choose an Auditor

Being a part of a non-profit organization, you know how important it is to timely and accurately report your financial information. These include how…

4 Characteristics of a Good Job Description

From recruitment and compensation to training and employee relations, leaders in human resources (HR) take on a variety of responsibilities. And with those responsibilities…

12 Questions to Get Your Content Marketing Plan Started

Content marketing—it’s a newer phrase, but in reality, organizations have been implementing it for quite some time. Many think that content marketing means creating…

How 4 Resources Can Keep You Updated on Employment Laws

Anyone handling human resources (HR) today is faced with an ever-changing landscape of federal, state and even local employment laws. Cutting through this clutter…

5 Ways Your Business Can Benefit from Social Media

Fast forward almost 10 years—now it’s rare to find a company not on Facebook. And it’s not only Facebook that companies are flocking toward….

20 Questions to Ask Prospective HR Outsourcing Vendors

A couple months ago, we gave you five reasons why you should consider outsourcing your human resources responsibilities. Now, you’ve probably put some thought into doing…

Municipal fraud: Why hiring a third party will help your situation

In a previous post, we described how to create workplace culture, as well as a fraud prevention program, that would limit the amount of employee…